A RAILWAY TICKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 21

A RAILWAY TICKET.

.Mft'T. participated in a Sunday excursion to a certain country town, in which the return ticket cost only 60 per cent, of the usual single fare. During the day he met some old friends, who invited him to stay until Monday morning. One .of these friends purchased from him the return half of his ticket for half the price he had paid for it, and travelled to town by the excursion train on its return journey. On Monday Mr. T. returned to town, and took a return ticket at the usual rates, this being of course twice the cost of a single ticket. His friend, whom he afterwards met in town, purchased from him also the return half of this ticket, but Mr. T. w>ould accept only a round sum for it, which happened to be 80 per cent, of the cost of a single' ticket. The result of. all this fraudulent buying and selling was that Mr. T. 's two railway tickets had cost him £1 17s 6d. What was the cost of the excursion ticket? '. ■•.■'. A SUBSTITUTION PROBLEM. This problem is similar to the one given four weeks ago, but it is less difficult. Numerals have to be written in place of the letters, so that the result is a sum in simple addition, and no two letters have the same numerical value. ' . . ' RAIN WIND